Heta
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Heta is a conventional name for the historical Greek alphabet letter eta and several of its variants, when used in their original function of denoting the consonant.
Crater Hippolyte Painter Louvre E636
Claudian letters
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The Claudian letters were a set of three new letters for the Latin alphabet developed by the Roman emperor Claudius, who reigned the Roman Empire from the year 41 to the year 54. These letters, accord
Heta
…Roman emperor Claudius in the mid-1st century AD, Latin briefly re-borrowed the letter in the shape of the half-H tack glyph, as one of the so-called Claudian letters. It denoted the sonus medius, a short close vowel sound of a quality between i and u. In modern transcriptions and editions of ancient Greek epigraphic…
Claudian pomerium marker, where written words ampliavit and terminavit use turned digamma (highlighted in red)